Michael Evan Victor Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton DL (27 June 1924 – 30 May 2013) was a British peer and maternal grandson of the 9th Duke of Devonshire.
The son of George Evan Michael Baillie and Maud Louisa Emma Cavendish, he was educated at Eton College and served as lieutenant in the Scots Guards in World War II.
In 1962 he inherited the title of Baron Burton from his paternal grandmother Nellie Baillie, 2nd Baroness Burton.
He was an elected county councillor for Inverness-shire 1948–75 and a justice of the peace (J.P.) 1961–75.
He lived at Dochgarroch Lodge, Inverness and died there on 30 May 2013.
On 28 April 1948, he married Elizabeth Ursula Foster Wise (died 1993).[1] They divorced in 1977 after having six children.
In 1978, he married Coralie Denise Cliffe of Natal, South Africa (d. 17 January 2022).
He became a Scottish Freemason having been initiated in Lodge Old Inverness Kilwinning St. John's, No.6, (Inverness-shire) in 1951. He served as master of that lodge 1978–1979. He was also a member of Lodge Sir Robert Moray, No.1641, (Edinburgh, Scotland). He was installed as Grand Master Mason on 25 November 1993, within Freemasons' Hall, 96 George Street, Edinburgh.[2]
